Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 22:17:28 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: rcarter@pinyon.org (Russell L. Carter) Cc: grog@lemis.com, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any documentation on SMP support on 3.0? Message-ID: <199902050317.WAA00844@y.dyson.net> In-Reply-To: <199902030354.UAA39207@psf.Pinyon.ORG> from "Russell L. Carter" at "Feb 2, 99 08:54:08 pm"
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Russell L. Carter said: > %I'm currently putting together an upgrade for The Complete FreeBSD > %describing the changes in 3.0. I have almost nothing on SMP. As I > %understand it, there isn't much to say, but if anybody could point me > %to some text or tell me of possible gotchas, I'd be grateful. > > Not much to say? :) Well, SMP works very well for parallel > compiles, at least. There is a lot of uncertainty now with > the scheduler, for real-time (posix4) and for threads. But I bought > a box (for work) dedicated to compiles, and am very happy with it. > (2xPII-350,512MB PC100 DIMMS,TYAN 1836SDLUAN, 4.0-current) > I have some scheduler modifications that improve things alittle, and are much more efficient than the old code. If you all are interested, I can post some minor changes (about 10% of my working code) that make things work much more smoothly. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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